The conference “Today's European Space Programmes: Applications and Synergies with a view on Eastern Europe” takes place at the Romanian Parliament starting today. The event is organised by the Romanian Space Agency (ROSA) together with the European Space Agency (ESA), the Romanian Parliament — Chamber of Deputies and with the support of the European Commission.

The first day of the conference will provide an overview of the EU Space Programmes, and include dedicated panels focused on the current state of the Copernicus, Galileo and SATCOM programmes, as well as integrated applications.

The second day of the conference will focus on success stories of effective exploitation of space data and information and include a round table discussion that will bring together representatives from public and private local or regional institutions aiming to identify synergies between the different European space programmes.

The conference is organised under the auspices of the Romanian Ministry of Research and Innovation.

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On 3 March 2018, the President of the Romanian Space Agency (ROSA), Dr. Phys. Marius-Ioan Piso, participated at the 2nd International Space Exploration Forum (ISEF2), in Tokyo, Japan — an international ministerial event sponsored by Japan’s Minister for Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT).

The President of the Romanian Space Agency (ROSA), Dr. Phys. Marius-Ioan Piso, is participating at the 55th edition of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, held at the Vienna International Centre, Austria, between 29 January – 9 February 2018.

On the eve of the One Planet Summit organised in Paris, on 12 December, and chaired by President Emmanuel Macron, the President of the Romanian Space Agency (ROSA) together with other heads of the world’s space agencies met at CNES to discuss climate monitoring from space. The high-level meeting led to the adoption of the Paris Declaration, which proposes to set up a Space Climate Observatory (SCO) to help sustain long-term observations, pool climate data acquired from space and make them readily available to the international community in a free and open data policy.

The jury of the 2017 Exo-RO National Rover Competition has selected this year’s winners out of the nine teams of high school students that arrived in the finals. The winning team is Inspiration “Carmen Sylva" – ICS from "Carmen Sylva" Theoretical High School in Eforie Sud. The runner-up is the Highlander team from “Tudor Vianu” Informatics National College in Bucharest and the third place was awarded to Help-R team from ”Mircea cel Batran” National College in Constanta.